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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Digital Logic of Death
    sub title: Confronting Mortality in Contemporary Media
  name:
    name part: Pustay, Steven.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (225 pages)
  abstract: "In The Digital Logic of Death , Steven Pustay skillfully makes visible the immensely important but often overlooked role that moving images play in shaping our understanding of mortality. This relationship, he argues, is made all the more urgent by the technologies of the digital age, which have profoundly altered our ability to represent and contemplate death through moving images, resulting in an entirely new cultural logic of death. To draw out this new logic, Pustay presents accessible readings of otherwise dense and difficult philosophical approaches to death ? such as those found in existentialism, psychoanalysis, and critical theory ? by reading them through the lens of contemporary media. From art-house films like Irrv̌ersible and The Fountain to blockbusters like the Matrix trilogy, from television commercials for M&M's to pay-cable dramas like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad , from first-person shooters like Bioshock to indie-games like LIMBO , Pustay shows how moving images have shifted our understanding of death in general and our recognition of our own finiteness in particular."--
  table of contents: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Digital Logic of Death -- Knowing Death -- Showing Death -- 1 The Trauma of Digital Death -- In Effigie, In Absentia -- The Jouissance of Death (Witnessing) -- The Pornography of Death (Representing) -- The Sublimity of Death (Simulating) -- Time Destroys Everything -- 2 The Digital Path to Death -- Death in Digital Games -- Re-animation -- Compossibility -- Recurrence, Subjectivity, Contemplation -- The Path to Death -- After the Game is Before the Game -- 3 The Potential of Digital Death -- Possibilistic to the Limit
  table of contents: Anxiety and Angst (Possibility and Authenticity) -- Being-toward-Death (Potentiality, Resoluteness, Immanence) -- Split Subjectivity (Potentiality, Reflection, Ecstasis) -- The Road to Awe -- 4 The Event of Digital Death -- The One or the Multiple -- Cyborgs, Androids, and Immortal Machines -- Being as Multiplicity (Axiomatic vs. Problematic) -- Death as Event (Consistency and Inconsistency) -- Everything That Has a Beginning Has an End -- Conclusion: The Fractal Logic of Life -- The Micro and the Macro -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
  subject:
    topic: Media studies
  subject:
    topic: Media studies
  subject:
    topic: Social Science
    topic: Media Studies
  subject:
    topic: Social Science
    topic: Death & Dying
  subject:
    topic: Performing Arts
    topic: Film & Video
    topic: History & Criticism
  classification: HQ1073
  classification: 306.9
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    title info:
      title: Digital Logic of Death : Confronting Mortality in Contemporary Media
    name:
      name part: Pustay, Steven.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, ©2021
  identifier: 9781501364068
  identifier: 1501364065
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  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 201226
    record change date: 20250218182622.5
    record identifier: in00005617230
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng